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Wanna buy an aircraft carrier?

The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sails down the Firth of Clyde, in Scotland, on its way to the Glen Mallan Jetty on Loch Long to unload ammunition during its decommissioning on Nov. 12, 2010. (Danny Lawson/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

For sale: One retired U.K. Royal Navy aircraft carrier, 30 years old, displacement 19,000 metric tonnes. Price: Make an offer.
The Royal Navy decommissioned the light aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal earlier this year, after more than 25 years in service.

Interested buyers must submit a request by April 27 to attend one of two viewings, scheduled for 8 a.m. on May 3 and 4. Include a brief outline of your intentions for the vessel.

The HMS Illustrious is the Royal Navy’s only remaining aircraft carrier. It is scheduled to remain in service until 2014, when the new HMS Queen Elizabeth is due to enter service. A second Queen Elizabeth Class carrier, the HMS Prince Of Wales, is set to enter service in 2016.

The latest Ark Royal was the fifth of that name in the Royal Navy, following a 16th-century galleon that took on the Spanish Armada, a merchant ship converted into an aircraft carrier during World War I, a purpose-built carrier launched in 1937 (which took part in World War II, and sunk after being struck by a German torpedo on Nov. 13, 1941) and another carrier launched in 1950.

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